Caracterización de las competencias profesionales del educadora infantil ecuatoriano

Abstract

Abstract: Competencies are essential to ensure that children receive a high-quality education and develop in a healthy and balanced way. The objective of this work is to identify the main professional competencies of early childhood education teachers, related to the skills and knowledge useful to effectively exercise their profession. The type of research is a mixed descriptive study, with a review of bibliographic theory and the application of an ad-hoc questionnaire entitled "Professional teaching competencies of early childhood educators". The population consisted of 17 educators, and the sample consisted of 11 teachers from different public and private educational institutions. The results obtained revealed numerous skills used by teachers in different pedagogical competencies, planning, socioemotional, research and diversity. Taking into account these results, the intervention proposal was designed to address the issue of positive education, which will help the teacher to solve the mediation and conflict resolution competence by creating a safe environment in which students can be authentic and able to solve any problem that arises in the school and social environment.